200-hour professional certification program
10 weekend intensives: September 2017 – June 2018

A unique opportunity to study and practice intensely with experienced and knowledgeable yoga teachers. This training is designed for students and teachers of all traditions who teach or who are interested in teaching groups of all levels. It is also for students and teachers who wish to take their own practice to a new level by deepening their understanding of Yoga.

Admission requirements:
• A regular yoga practice of at least one year (2-3 times a week) is recommended

In this essential yoga teacher training, the following components will be taught:

Detailed examination and analysis of over 40 classical yoga postures.

Learning how to accurately practice and teach asana by breaking down the poses into component parts.

Learning to adapt poses with the proper usage of props.

Developing and maintaining a self-nourishing personal asana and meditation practice.

Exploring how to wisely and safely adapt poses for different body types and different levels of flexibility and/or strength.

Learning to modify poses or support students with specific needs from gender, age, injuries, pregnancy, menstrual cycle, etc….

Study skills that create good foundation for an effective teacher:

Basic teaching skills

Effective verbal communication

Proper demonstration skills

Observing, correcting, adjusting

Classroom management

Basic art of sequencing and hands on adjusting

The above will be taught through various methods including:

Developing a home and classroom asana practice

Developing a well rounded basic meditation practice

Working with in-depth self exploration

Group work and peer teaching

Regular homework assignments

Examination both theory and practical

We will, as a group, design practices for all major categories of poses including standing poses, backbends, twists, forward bends and inversions. Participants will practice a set sequence of poses from month to month to enhance their familiarity with both the basics of the poses from a teaching point of view as well as refinements meant for their own development.

Hart Lazer

Hart Lazer, ERYT-500, is co-owner of United Yoga Montreal and internationally recognized as a teacher of yoga teachers. Systematic, profound, thorough, sensitive and challenging, he is a master at teaching the mechanics of asana, having studied closely with Iyengar teacher Ramanand Patel for many years and undertaken a serious study of Ashtanga yoga. Hart Lazer offers his students the experience gained from his unique life story, from boyhood in a Jewish rabbinical school through a career in counseling and over 25 years as a yoga teacher and practitioner. In recent years Hart has explored the effects of Buddhism, yoga and trauma on the body and has developed a multi-dimensional approach to working with human difficulties.

Donna Read

Donna Read, ERYT-500, is co-owner of United Yoga Montreal and Co-Founder of Le Centre de Yoga de Granby, she has been practicing yoga since 1996. At that time, she was already well established in the fitness industry where she taught workshops all over the world. Donna was a Nike Athlete and had several fitness videos to her name. She has studied mostly in the Ashtanga and Iyengar methods of Yoga with great teachers like Hart Lazer, Ramanand Patel, Father Joe Perrera, David Swenson and many more. Although since 2004, Donna has had the privilege and pleasure of studying under the guidance of Hart Lazer – whom she considers her teacher at heart. Dynamic and fun, Donna combines her knowledge and humour to make all her classes an enriching and unique experience.

Fees:

$3000.00 plus tax, paid in full by September 15th , 2017
$3250.00 plus tax for a monthly payment plan
(Please email Donna Read for more details at unitedyogamontreal@gmail.com )

Program Requirements:

• Submission of homework and assignments
• Monthly independent home yoga and meditation practices are given.
• Punctual attendance in full is mandatory. Should any hours be missed, the student
is responsible to make up these hours in order to receive a certificate of completion.
• Successfully pass both oral and written exams

Registration:

Traditionally, this program is very popular, and recommend that you register as soon as
possible. Space is limited.
Payment must be made in advance to secure your place.